Wish-List for Dominions 4

Olive · #1 April 20th, 2007, 04:07 AM

Thinking back of the maaaaany hours spent on dom 2 & 3, I think it's really worth the price.

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Kristoffer O said:
I wouldn't mind to see a dominions totally remade by someone else (paying me for it perhaps). It would be fun (and possibly agonizing) to se a graphics heavy simplified RTS version of dominions

Dominions Total War ?

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Jazzepi said:
Besides that, have you thought of trying to tap into other markets? I think that you could bring in a lot more people if you put your game up on Steam for distribution. I don't know what kind of deals they make with developers, but you'd be opening yourself up to a huge fanbase. I know they had a small company 4X space expansion style game on there a while back called Space Empires 5. I don't know how well it fared, but I checked just a moment ago and it's still up there for sale.

Hmmmm... maybe... but keep the good paper manual + cd distrib...

Cor · #2 April 20th, 2007, 01:18 PM

How about ageing (natural or not) that can be benifical to creatures who grow stronger with age, Dragons, Krakens etc.

How about more than 6? size catagories. Like up to 12 in rare instances.

How about spell specific boosting magic sites. Like "Lava Vents" 1 fire gem, adds +100% damage to Fires form afar.

HoneyBadger · #3 April 20th, 2007, 05:57 PM

Now you're talking!
These first two are things I've asked for and made cases for myself, Cor

So far no luck though, but it's nice to see I'm not the only person who thinks these would be good ideas.

The third is also a good idea, although I'm just as in favor of sites that allow you to summon creatures and pay for them with gems, instead of just tying up a single mage and getting a Draconian every single turn.

Jazzepi · #4 April 20th, 2007, 06:13 PM

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Cor said:
How about ageing (natural or not) that can be benifical to creatures who grow stronger with age, Dragons, Krakens etc.

How about more than 6? size catagories. Like up to 12 in rare instances.

How about spell specific boosting magic sites. Like "Lava Vents" 1 fire gem, adds +100% damage to Fires form afar.

I actually think there should be more interesting magic sites. Or more sites that do low level things. Like a 1 Death gem site that makes undead in that province immune to banishment. Or just higher MR. Whatever

Jazzepi

HoneyBadger · #5 April 20th, 2007, 06:17 PM

That's another good idea. I don't like the term "unholy" because my coffee-mug isn't-as far as I know-holy, but I think "holy magic"(another bad term) could use a split between angelic and demonic influences.

Managarm · #6 April 22nd, 2007, 06:47 PM

Not sure if somebody else has mentioned this before, but here we go...

I'll be great to have the "Army Setup" option available for PD troops and thus enable a much more rational setup.
It's rather frustrating when you have an intermediate PD value (say 20-25) and the province troops launch a frontal assault, get slaughtered soon and brake without causing (almost) any enemy casualties.

I think that nations like Caelum and C'Tis will benefit from this option.
The Flyers you get from Caelum's PD are not suited for a full frontal assault, they're more suited for flanking/killing rearmost units.
The combination of C'Tis' low morale values plus Militias mindlessly charging is destined to fail. OTOH, if you are able to arrange the City Guards in front of the Militias they'll crush a skull or two before routing...

Xietor · #7 April 22nd, 2007, 07:02 PM

I think there are a ton of magic sites already. Almost an infinite number. That is low on my priority list.

Ballbarian · #8 April 22nd, 2007, 07:59 PM

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I'll be great to have the "Army Setup" option available for PD troops and thus enable a much more rational setup.
It's rather frustrating when you have an intermediate PD value (say 20-25) and the province troops launch a frontal assault, get slaughtered soon and brake without causing (almost) any enemy casualties.

I like this idea. In my current Mictlan game, I had a province with 11 defense (1 commander) and remnants of misc indy archers that had routed from other battles nearby. The result was the lone tribal king commander charging to his death while his army stopped to throw / fire ranged weapons. Why he didn't just use his own sling escapes me...

Jazzepi · #9 April 22nd, 2007, 08:05 PM

There are a ton of vanilla magic sites, actually. I think that there should be a ton of magic sites with a small effect. Especially ones that alter the battlefield or the province in small ways. Like an A1 site that grants everyone in that province 40% air shield.

Jazzepi